Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822

Internet Friend wrote: »

Pusher wearing a blue shirt in both videos, cyclist on a black bike, white bidon, blue helmet, navy jersey, blue shorts!! Even the pusher puts his left arm up behind his head at the same level/position in both videos. Too many coincidences :rolleyes:

Whoops sorry. I was talking about this video

https://twitter.com/mbwebster64/status/975754748237361153?s=19

The Leicestershire one

Unfortunately not a near miss today for someone, hopefully injuries aren't too severe: http://www.thejournal.ie/cyclist-knocked-down-dublin-city-centre-4103832-Jul2018/

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This is the one I remember from Ireland in 2015. Posted to Facebook by someone called Eoin Maughan. You can hear the pusher saying "Right boys: This is the new challenge here."

Video:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/watch-the-shocking-moment-when-a-passenger-in-a-moving-car-pushes-a-cyclist-off-his-bike-10419688.html

More info:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cyclist-pushed-off-bike-by-man-in-passing-car-344852.html

From the second link:

The video was posted to Facebook last Saturday by Eoin Maughan, along with the caption, “This is the new challenge boys”. It was shared over 8,000 times on the social media site before it was removed yesterday.

A number of social media users and forum contributors claimed Facebook had initially said the video did not violate its policies when they reported the footage to the social network.

Posting on his Facebook page, Mr Maughan said it was not him in the video. He subsequently described those who were critical of the incident and who had reported the video as “sad c**ts”.

“Video got removed some crack while it lasted,” he wrote. “Just for badness I’m going to make a video where I hang out the window with a baseball bat and destroy someone.”

Animal.

cython wrote: »

Unfortunately not a near miss today for someone, hopefully injuries aren't too severe: http://www.thejournal.ie/cyclist-knocked-down-dublin-city-centre-4103832-Jul2018/

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comments section is currently unusually benign.

This involves a pet peeve of mine with other cyclists, someone accelerating hard as you go to overtake them. Cycling to work this morning through the park, I catch up with him halfway between the Aras and the Zoo. Despite going at quite a leisurely pace, I am traveling quicker than he is. As he is on the right-hand side of the cycle lane and not traveling in a straight line, I slow and let him know that I’m there. He pulls over to the left-hand side and I pull alongside to overtake. As soon as I do, he accelerates hard and swerves over to the right side again nearly running me off the path. I slow again and he sprints off at about 10km an hour quicker than he was before he knew I was there. Bizarre.

Pretty shaken after today's act of stupidity. On the cycle path on the N11 where the slip road by Fosterbrook enters. Green light, but a motorcyclist decided that he didn't want to wait to enter the road, so snuck by just after I passed. Clipped the back wheel but I stayed upright.

I yelled. He looked back, revved his engine and sped off. I even looked back to make sure I hadn't misread the lights, but no, still green on the N11. Didn't get the reg, but wish I had. Some don't deserve to be on the roads. As little as I like them I get dangerous overtakes to some extent (lack of attention or whatever else), but this was so blatantly ignorant and obnoxious. Can't not have known what he was doing.

Nicely, another motorcyclist stopped and asked me if I was alright. One nice one makes up for the **** I suppose.

Audi driver at Harold’s Cross this evening honking like a lunatic at some old bloke trying to get into the lane to go right at the park. He was so close to him I was sure he’d hit him.

Posted a few months ago about a close pass by a truck near the back of the airport and reporting the driver to Finglas GS after he verbally abused me. The Garda was very helpful and promised to get back to me after she spoke with the driver and his employer. I had nearly given up on it but received a call on Saturday informing me that she had apologies to pass on to me from the company owner and, less enthusiastically, the driver. The employer stated that the incident is noted on the driver's file and, if anything similar happens again, he will be dismissed.

I asked her if there would be a record of my complaint on the Garda system if the driver was involved in an accident. She assured me that it was recorded the day I reported it and would be taken into account if he was reported for any dangerous driving anywhere in the country. She stressed that it was very important for cyclists to report incidents such as mine and that it would be a factor in deciding whether or not to prosecute a driver.

twinsen wrote: »

Not sure if this counts, but myself and a friend were cycling to Lucan along the canal yesterday.
Around the Park west google maps we have met group of young kids with few bulterrier dogs and couple of horses. Once we passed them they sent towards us two fist size stones. One missed my friend by couple inches.
We have rang Gardai to inform about the incident, and watched them from safe distance for next 30 minutes, but they never came.

My brother in law warned me recently to stay off it due to recent incidents of cyclists being attacked. Living in Lucan, I've been cycling the canal for 5 years. Never had any issues being attacked, surprisingly considering how often I was there at night, but there's many dodgy characters there. I passed 5 lads drinking at one of the gates one night. Shout out to the council for making me have to stop the bike, in almost pitch black, to go through a gate surrounded by local youth. They get their dirt bikes and horses onto the canal anyway so the gates are completely useless. I understand the point of them at the road side though, not on the actual canal.

The only real incident I had was last year cycling home from work, just past the Kylemore road heading towards Ninth Lock. A young kid was smashing bottles in the middle of the path then a friend of his threw a brick at me. A full on brick. It hit the back of my frame and fortunately didn't hit the wheel or me. I called the station but forgot the name of Kylemore road. Told her I was on the canal bike path and she thought I was talking about Ninth Lock...

Sorry for the long ramble, but glad to hear you're both ok. Take it easy around there. It's quite a handy route to get into the city, especially with all the traffic lights on the Nangor Road etc but Christ it's plagued by council estates and knackers.

twinsen wrote: »

Not sure if this counts, but myself and a friend were cycling to Lucan along the canal yesterday.
Around the Park west google maps we have met group of young kids with few bulterrier dogs and couple of horses. Once we passed them they sent towards us two fist size stones. One missed my friend by couple inches.
We have rang Gardai to inform about the incident, and watched them from safe distance for next 30 minutes, but they never came.

That stretch is best avoided in the afternoon/evenings during the hot spells, unfortunately

I've posted here a couple of times previously about a collision that I witnessed at Leeson st bridge last December when a driver turned across the path of a cyclist, knocking her down. the cyclist came down pretty hard and was certainly in shock afterwards but didn't seem physically injured (thankfully).

anyway I captured it clear as day on camera so reported it to Traffic Watch. I went in to the station earlier this year and made a statement - yesterday I received a witness summons for a date in September with the charge being "careless driving contrary to section 52(1)".
will see how it goes anyway and will update here after the court date.